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Show TOWN IS SWEPT i BY AJORNADO Many Killed and Injured and Search for Bodies Under Military Supervision. GREAT DAMAGE DONE Houses Smashed Into Kindling Wood Trees Torn Bodily From Earth. NEW ALBANY. Ind.. March 24. Revised official lists of the victims of , the storm which swept New Albany late yesterday place the number of dead at thirty-one and the injured at. approximately one hundred Of the injured ten or more are expected to die, while it Is thought that a number of bodies still lie buried under the debris de-bris of wrecked buildings. The search of the ruined structures in the devastated devas-tated sections of the city is going forward for-ward under military supervision. Ear- ly this morning a cordon of state troops was thrown about .the storm-swept storm-swept parts of the city. Approximately three hundred resi-i resi-i dences. industrial plants and other buildings were badly damaged or destroyed, de-stroyed, in some Instances houses had been so torn to piere and the wreckage intermingled with that from other structures that those who had lived in them were unable definitely to local-- the sites upon which they had stood. Houses had been picked up bodily apparently and then thrown to the earth With terrific force smashing them into kindling wood. Other hous ' es appeared to have been flattened out i as if some tremendous weight had been laid upon them. Small outbuild-i outbuild-i ings and sections of roofs were carried car-ried for blocks and trees were torn bodily from the earth. oo |